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Of the Manner of feeding Fifb. 
IN a few you may keep up thirty or forty carps, from Odto- 
ber to March in winter, without feeding ; and by fifhing with 
trammels or flews in March or April, you may take from your 
great waters, to recruit the ftews; but you muft not fail to 
feed all f{ummer, from March to October again, as conftantly as 
your cooped chickens are fed, and to as good and certain ac- 
count. ‘The reafon you feed in fummer, and not in winter, 
is, becaufe the fifth will lie clofe in cold weather, and feed 
little, not caring to ftir, efpecially upon the fhoals, where it 
is proper to give them meat. 
If you would bring more fifh together into your ftews, you 
may preferve and improve them by feeding; but there are 
bounds, becaufe the water is but fmall, and will.not admit 
any great number: but if you have a great number of ffh to 
be kept for an opportunity, and you put them into a confi- 
derable water, you may in that manner ftock to any quantity, 
taking care duly to feed them ; and fo not only maintain, but 
improve one thoufand per acre; but if thus over-ftocked, and 
you do not feed fuffiiciently, they will fink, and you be a great - 
lofer. 
Now, as for your ftews, the care of feeding is -beft intruft- 
ed toa butler or gardener, who are or fhould be always at 
home, becaufe the conftancy and regularity of ferving the fifh, 
conduce very much to their well eating and thriving; for- 
they 
